Where: Azerbaijan (40.5° N, 49.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 49.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• According to the most recent study, the age of Binagada fossils is approximately 120,000–96,000 BP (Zubakov, 1999)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: tar; poorly lithified tar
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. Shevchenko in 1963
• Repository: National Museum of Natural History (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Primary reference: L. V. Gorobets and V. O. Yanenko. 2018. Late Pleistocene birds from Binagada (Azerbaijan) in collection of the National Museum of Natural History (Kyiv, Ukraine). Vestnik Zoologii 52:31-36 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 193356: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.05.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Haliaeetus albicilla Linnaeus 1758 white-tailed eagle | |
Perdix perdix Linnaeus 1758 grey partridge | |
Charadriiformes indet. Huxley 1867 shorebird | |
Larus cachinnans Pallas 1811 Caspian gull | |
Actitis hypoleucos, Tringa glareola, Tringa cf. glareola, Tringa ochropus, Tringa erythropus, Gallinago gallinago, Calidris pugnax, Calidris cf. pugnax, Calidris minuta, Calidris cf. minuta, "Limicola falcinellus" = Calidris falcinellus, Calidris binagadensis, Lymnocryptes minimus
Actitis hypoleucos Linnaeus 1758 common sandpiper
Tringa glareola Linnaeus 1758 wood sandpiper
Tringa cf. glareola Linnaeus 1758 wood sandpiper
Tringa ochropus Linnaeus 1758 green sandpiper
Tringa erythropus Pallas 1764 spotted redshank
Gallinago gallinago Linnaeus 1758 common snipe
Calidris pugnax Linnaeus 1758 ruff
Calidris cf. pugnax Linnaeus 1758 ruff
Calidris minuta Leisler 1812 little stint
Calidris cf. minuta Leisler 1812 little stint
"Limicola falcinellus" = Calidris falcinellus Pontoppidan 1763 broad-billed sandpiper
Calidris binagadensis Serebrovsky 1940 snipe
Lymnocryptes minimus Brünnich 1764 jack snipe | |
Falco peregrinus Tunstall 1771 Peregrine falcon
Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus 1758 Common kestrel | |
Anatidae "indet. 1", Anatidae "indet. 2", Anatidae indet., Mareca cf. penelope, Anas platyrhynchos, Anas acuta
Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825 waterfowl
Mareca cf. penelope Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian wigeon
Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus 1758 mallard
Anas acuta Linnaeus 1758 northern pintail | |
Alaudidae indet. Vigors 1825 lark | |
Fringillidae indet. Vigors 1825 finch | |
Podiceps nigricollis Brehm 1831 black-necked grebe |